SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- Doctors in Shanghai on Tuesday were considering surgery options for a 2-month-old boy born with an unusually well-formed third arm.Neither of the boy's two left arms is fully functional and tests have so far been unable to determine which was more developed, said Dr. Chen Bochang, head of the orthopedics department at Shanghai Children's Medical Center.

"His case is quite peculiar. We have no record of any child with such a complete third arm," Chen said in a telephone interview. (Watch Jie-jie in his hospital cradle -- :47)

The boy, identified only as "Jie-jie," also was born with just one kidney and may have problems that could lead to curvature of the spine, local media reports said. Jie-jie cried when either of his left arms was touched, but smiled and responded normally to other stimuli, the reports said.

Chen said doctors hoped to work out a plan for surgery, but the boy's small size made it impossible to perform certain tests that would help them prepare.

Media reports said other children have been reported born with additional arms and legs, but in those cases it was clear what limb was more developed. Chen's hospital is one of China's most experienced in dealing with unusual birth defects, including separating conjoined twins.

I just went there... why are the all the press releases in MS Word format?? So you have to download them and/or open them in Word? Why??? Why not just put them in HTML format right there on the site? I don't understand the thought process there. As a general rule I don't like having to download stuff from a site just to read it, or having to open it in a separate application. People can sneak all sorts of nasty stuff onto your computer when you do that.

man that's nothing. My wife watches alot of medical shows and this one show had this indian kid that had a parasitic 2nd head. It looked like a siamiase twin attached at the head but the 2nd head had a fully developed brain so it could see, hear and suck on a pasafire...it was just a head and a portion of the neck then nothing...it was the wildest thing I've ever seen.